Climate Change Consultant

We are looking for a dynamic and ambitious Senior Consultant or Consultant to join Itad’s Inclusive Growth and Climate Change practice. The role is focused on delivering and growing our climate change portfolio, including the technical delivery of our monitoring, evaluation and learning projects and supporting business development activities.

**About Itad**

Itad is a leading international development consultancy firm providing advice to governments, foundations, multilateral agencies and non-profits on how to maximise the impact of their investments. We have a 35-year track record of providing our clients with the information and insight they need to make development work smarter, produce better results and improve people’s lives. We work for diverse clients across the globe.

Our knowledge and expertise are grouped around four Practice areas including Inclusive Growth and Climate Change, Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings (FCAS), Human Development, and Governance and Institutional Strengthening.

Our projects range from designing complex MEL systems for major global initiatives, to providing strategic advice to programmes and organisations, and to conducting long-term impact evaluations. In all of our work, our focus is on providing the insight and ideas to ensure that the resources invested in international development have the greatest possible beneficial impact on people and the planet.

We are a values-based organisation. Our values include making a difference, delivering technical excellence and innovation, contributing through collaboration and learning, providing opportunities for personal development to our staff, promoting inclusion and diversity, taking action to improve our impact the environment, and shared rewards for the people we work with. We endeavour to integrate these into all aspects of our work.

This role sits with our Inclusive Growth and Climate Change practice, which recognises that the threats posed by climate change are global and have the potential to reverse hard-fought development gains. We believe the transformative change needed to address these threats must be based on a robust understanding of what works and why. The evaluation and learning work we do to understand climate change, natural resources and resilience helps our partners to use evidence-based findings to make decisions which lead to informed investments and actionable change towards a low carbon, climate-resilient future.

**The role**

You will play a central role in the strategic, technical and managerial delivery of Itad’s Climate Change work. You will lead and support the technical and managerial delivery of our projects, as an evaluator and advisor. In addition, you will help to build our portfolio of climate change MEL assignments through a variety of business development activities.

The core technical strengths of all our consultants are focused around four key areas:

- **Evidence Advocate**:using robust evidence to support clients and shape global debates.
- **Change Agent**:guiding clients in reflecting, learning and managing change.
- **Project Manager**: building high performing project teams that deliver quality and commercial targets.
- **Trusted Advisor**: building and shaping long term relationships with clients and partners that add value and deliver commercial success.

As a **change agent** you will have demonstrated facilitation and communication skills and experience, conveying ideas to clients and teams in a clear and focused style, flexing your technique to suit the environment, and in a way that generates buy-in and supports learning.

As a **project manager** you will have a track record in managing the delivery of complex projects, setting clear direction, managing risk and ensuring delivery of high quality outputs that meet commercial targets and provide value for money.

As a **trusted advisor** you will have a strong understanding of how our clients work, and demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with clients that generate repeat work. You will also have experience in complex bid processes, including building and managing large teams and consortia.

The role is based in our offices in Brighton & Hove (East Sussex), but we are open to you working anywhere in the UK. Travel to the office would be expected for key company and team events. You will already have the right to live and work in the UK and be able to undertake national and international travel when conditions allow.

You will have a strong academic background in a relevant discipline, and broad knowledge of climate change as it relates to international development. This could be accompanied with specific expertise in one or more of the following areas: climate change resilience, mitigation, nature-based solutions, climate finance or other relevant expertise.

You will have experience of, and an appetite for, business development. You will play an active role in bidding work and ideally have a persona